This is hard

People always ask me if writing a book, or 6 books, was hard. The answer is yes, but I know something harder. Way harder. Promoting a book. Especially when you hate selling anything, least of all yourself. I don’t exactly enjoy social media. At least not enough to post as much as I should. I also just don’t feel like I have the time. Of course, the solution is just to use one of the many, many, many online services who email me daily to help sell my book, but then there’s the question of who to trust. Are these people scammers? Which services do I actually need? Which one will actually work? And how much is too much money to spend on marketing? Part of me thinks I should just do some research and take a chance on a marketing company that other authors have vouched for. Another part of me wants to focus on just getting the final two books in the series out and then worry about sales later. I don’t know what the right answer is. And at the end of the day, I kinda don’t think there is a right answer. There’s just putting my work out there and little by little, letting the world find me. I’m sure that eventually I will push the Reese Hawking series, but for now I’m just focused on getting the books into the hands of people who love mysteries and thrillers as much as I do. And for now, that’s enough for me.